Senior leaders of BNP will be meeting diplomats deputed in Bangladesh this afternoon.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir convenes a meeting with its party leaders this afternoon to analyse the current political situation and decide their next course of action.

BNP has begun its countrywide leafleting campaign as part of its peaceful protest programmes to press for release of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina comes down heavily on BNP for making a convict its chairman and expresses her doubt about the ability of the party to do any good to the people as "it has taken corruption as its principle".

BNP is hopeful that it will secure permission to hold its February 22 rally at either Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan or near their Nayapaltan central office to press for Khaleda Zia’s release.

BNP senior leaders will sit with the lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia this afternoon to fix up the next legal step to release their chief from jail.

The BNP senior leaders will sit with the leaders of its professional body this afternoon.

BNP announces nationwide protest programme for on Friday and Saturday in protest of jailing their Chairperson Khaleda Zia in connection to a graft case.

Bangladesh should stop the arbitrary arrests and detention of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supporters and others, Human Rights Watch says.

BNP claims that its Joint Secretary General Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel has been picked up from an apartment in Malibagh area.

Law enforcers yesterday obstructed BNP's protest programmes at different places in the capital and elsewhere, the party claimed.

BNP will stage demonstrations in all wards of Dhaka city tomorrow protesting denial of permission to it for holding rally at Suhrawardy Udyan marking what it calls “Democracy Killing Day”.

Ruling Awami League and its political arch-rival BNP are getting prepared to stage a massive showdown on January 5, the fourth anniversary of the last parliamentary election, in differing views.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia says that her party must take part in the next general election at any cost.

Political opposition BNP has sent a legal notice to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleging that the premier brought false claims against Khaleda Zia and defamed her. It demands unconditional apology from the premier in 30 days.

BNP will not give any undertaking rather the government will be forced to hold an inclusive general election, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.

While the BNP sticks to its demand for holding the next national elections under a non-partisan polls-time government, the ruling Awami League insists the elections will be conducted as per constitutional provisions.

The BNP urges the government to hold talks with the political parties to find out a way of holding a free and fair election.

The government has obstructed BNP’s central relief team from going to Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingyas, the party alleges.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader alleges that BNP wants to create “another 1/11” through delivering provocative statements over the court verdict on the 16th constitutional amendment.